• CNN is releasing a final season of Anthony Bourdain's docuseries "Parts Unknown" this fall, The Los Angeles Times reports.
• Bourdain committed suicide in June while filming an episode of the series in France.
• The five-episode final season, the 12th in the series, will only feature one episode with Bourdain's voiceover narration, while the other four episodes will piece together footage of Bourdain with follow-up guest interviews that are yet to be filmed. 

CNN will release a final season of Anthony Bourdain's travel docuseries "Parts Unknown" this fall, The Los Angeles Times reports.

Bourdain committed suicide in June while filming an episode of the hit series in France.

Amy Entelis, the executive vice president of talent and content at CNN, told the Times that only one episode of the show's final season was completed before Bourdain's death.

That episode, filmed in Kenya with W. Kamau Bell, host of CNN's "United Shades of America," will be the only episode of the five-episode season to feature Bourdain's written voiceover narration, Entelis said. The other four episodes will piece together footage of Bourdain with follow-up interviews that are yet to be filmed, featuring guests of the show remembering its late host.

"Each one will feel slightly different depending on what’s gathered in the field," Entelis told the Times. "They will have the full presence of Tony because you’ll see him, you’ll hear him, you’ll watch him. That layer of his narration will be missing, but it will be replaced by other voices of people who are in the episodes."

Entelis said that the last episode of the series will be devoted to "how Tony affected the world." It will feature fan reactions to his program and interviews with guests who appeared on the series.

The Times notes that in the first half of 2018, commercials on new episodes of "Parts Unknown" earned an average of $8,601, the most of any CNN program, according to Standard Media Index. CNN ran the show in re-runs 166 times from October 1, 2017, to June 14 of this year, according to the Times.

The series has also had a second life on Netflix. In June, following Bourdain's death, Netflix extended a deal to keep "Parts Unknown" on its service for the foreseeable future, after fans petitioned the company to renew its license for the series, which was set to expire in June.

Read the Times feature here.

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• The first Costco store opened in the US in 1976.
• Since then, it has expanded to Europe, Australasia, and Asia.  
• We compared the experience of shopping in its stores in Japan versus the US.

A love of Costco transcends all geographical borders.

While America created the Costco phenomenon, its operations now extend far beyond the confines of this country and into Australasia, Europe, and Asia. 

Costco opened its first Japan location in 1999 and since then has grown its presence to 26 stores, which span the breadth of the country. 

The Japanese arm of the business is a wholly owned subsidiary of Costco US. While it stocks several US brands and Costco private-label products, there are some big differences between the experiences of shopping in both locations. 

Find out how different the two stores are below:

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From the outside, the warehouse-style layout of this Costco store in Tokoname, Japan, looks similar to Costco in the US.

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One of the biggest bonuses about shopping in Costco Japan is that its stores are open seven days a week, 364 days a year. It closes on January 1. US stores, on the other hand, are closed for major national holidays. Inside, walls of bulk-sized products line the store ...

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... which is exactly what you might see in the US.

• Some off-lease used cars can be purchased for under $20,000.
• iSeeCars.com analyzed more than 4.1 million cars to find the 12 cars that had the lowest 3-year-old used price. 
• The average depreciation rate for new cars after three years is 35%.
• The 12 cheapest used cars on the lowest used price list depreciated at a rate of 46.3%.

There's nothing better than finding a good deal. And one of the best deals out there is the purchase of an almost-new used car, meaning one that has only seen three years of use on the roads.

The automotive search engine iSeeCars.com recently commissioned a study to look at the used car industry, where they found the best used-car deals out there. But the study also took a more specific measurement of which are the best used cars that can be had for the very lowest cost. 

Among the 4.1 million cars surveyed, iSeeCars.com examined which cars under $20,000 provide the best bargain after three years of ownership. Each 3-year-old model selected has achieved a 5-star NHTSA safety rating, meaning these vehicles are both safe and affordable (making them the perfect college or high school graduation gift). 

Digging into the numbers a little bit, we find that the average depreciation for cars over three years is 35%. But these 12 cars selected by iSeeCars.com depreciated at an average rate of 46.3%. In fact, some units like the Volkswagen Passat had a depreciation rate as high as 50.7 percent after three years.  Essentially, if someone paid around $29,000 for a new Volkswagen Passat three years ago, you can have it today for a little more than $14,500. Not a bad deal, huh? 

This list includes seven domestic models and five imports, with five of the total models on their way to extinction, as they are being or have already been discontinued by their parent companies. These brands include: Ford Taurus, Chrysler 200, Ford Focus, Dodge Dart, and Ford Fusion. Ford, in particular, has made a conscious choice to end its entire sedan production and focus more on its trucks and crossover SUV business. 

"These cars are all under $20,000, and can be purchased for at least 44 percent less than what they would cost new," said iSeeCars CEO Phong Ly in a statement. "The affordability of these vehicles coupled with their safety ratings makes them attractive options for drivers on a budget such as new drivers and graduates."

Let's take a look at each of them below.

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12. Nissan Altima

Depreciation : 44.3%

Average 3-year-old used price : $14,292

11. Ford Fusion

Depreciation : 44.4%

Average 3-year-old used price : $14,920

10. Chevrolet Malibu

Depreciation : 44.5%

Average 3-year-old used price : $14,370

• Seventy-six luxury cars and motorbikes were destroyed in a government ceremony in the Philippines this week.
• The show was part of President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-corruption campaign.
• Combined, the vehicles had been valued at about $5.6 million.
• Watch bulldozers destroy the luxury cars below.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has overseen the destruction of $5.6 million worth of smuggled luxury cars and motorbikes as part of his anti-corruption drive.

The 76 cars and motorbikes, which include models by Lamborghini, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz, were publicly destroyed in a government ceremony in the northern province of Cagayan on Monday.

A Philippines government video shows at least three bulldozers crushing the vehicles, lined up in a row, to applause from a crowd. You can watch it below:

Together, the 68 cars and eight motorbikes were valued at around 298 million Philippine pesos ($5.6 million/£4.3 million), according to a press release from the Philippines government.

They had been part of the government's seizure of 800 vehicles allegedly smuggled through Cagayan's port, the government said, without specifying when the confiscation took place.

According to the government, Duterte told supporters at Monday's ceremony, named "Condemnation and Public Destruction of Contraband Vehicles": "You know, before a place can really be developed or a viable place to do business, you have to establish first law and order."

This is Duterte's second such purge of luxury vehicles. In March, he destroyed 30 cars— including Porsches, Mercedes, Jaguars, and Corvettes — in a similar ceremony.

The photos below show him inspecting a Mercedes-Benz and a Lamborghini on Monday before they are crushed.

Duterte's controversial rule

Since becoming president in 2016, Duterte has waged a bloody war on drugs and crime — two main tenets of his campaign.

Over the past two years, more than 12,000 suspected drug users and dealers are estimated to have died under his watch, some 4,500 of whom were by police, according to Human Rights Watch.

Duterte has also overseen the arrest of more than 10,000 people — including women and children — for "loitering" on the streets, Al Jazeera reported in June.

He routinely accuses journalists critical of his government of reporting "fake news," and justified the murder of journalists in his country.

"Just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you're a son of a b---h," Duterte said in 2016. "Freedom of expression cannot help you if you have done something wrong."

The 73-year-old has also been criticized for his disparaging comments toward women. Last year he joked that his country's soldiers were allowed to rape up to three women in areas where he had declared martial law.

In 2016, a video also surfaced of Duterte, then the mayor of Davao, joking at a campaign rally that he "should have been first" to rape an Australian nun who was murdered after being raped.

"I saw her face and I thought: 'Son of a b---h. What a pity ... I was mad she was raped but she was so beautiful,'" Agence France-Presse quoted him as saying. "I thought, 'the mayor should have been first.'"

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• France just passed a law that bans students from using smartphones at school. 
• There are some exceptions, like schools with students over 15 and for extracurricular activities and students with disabilities. 
•  France had already banned smartphone use during class time, but this latest ban extends to breaks and meal times. 
• The ban, which will go into effect in September, is intended to help students focus in school, and was created out of concern that students are becoming addicted to mobile phone use.

Starting this school year, French students won't be seeing much of their phones during the day. 

France just passed a smartphone ban for students up to 15 years old that will go into effect in September, the Agence France-Presse reports. Schools with students older than 15 can choose whether to impose a phone ban. The country had already enacted a smartphone ban during class hours, but this legislation will extend to breaks and meal times, effectively completely banning smartphones from schools with students under the age of 15.

The law requires that schools either prohibit smartphones or have students turn them off during the day. There will be exceptions for students with disabilities, or if smartphones are needed for extracurricular activities. 

This ban stems from a fear that students are becoming far too dependent on and distracted by their smartphones, but some critics from both sides of the aisle in France are saying that the ban won't accomplish much, and presents logistical problems such as phone storage.

For the most part, phone bans are left to the discretion of schools in other areas of the world. In the UK, some schools have completely banned phones, while others have lax restrictions. The Swedish government hasn't banned phone use in school, but Swedish students appear to support schools banning phones in classrooms. New York City had a cell phone ban for students in the area — a policy which Mayor de Blasio lifted in 2015. It was found that the New York ban was being disproportionately enforced at schools in low-income areas that had security measures like metal detectors, and families had to pay for the on-site phone storage out of their own pockets.

In light of this, France's approach is somewhat unusual, as the decision on whether to ban phone is usually left to the specific school in other countries. 

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• The Center for Disease Control warned about the dangers of reusing condoms in a recent tweet.
• Condoms are designed to help protect you and your partner against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. 
• Reusing condoms makes them completely ineffective, according to experts.

Reusing and recycling household items is an easy way to do your part to help save the environment. 

But the Center for Disease Control (CDC) took the unprecedented step to warn about the dangers of reusing one particular item: condoms.

"We say it because people do it: Don't wash or reuse #condoms! Use a fresh one for each #sex act," The CDC tweeted in July. 

Condoms are designed to help protect you and your sexual partner from spreading sexually transmitted diseases, like syphilis or chlamydia, as well as unwanted pregnancy. 

The effectiveness of condoms, however, is eliminated after the first use.

"Incorrect use, such as reusing a condom or using more than one at a time, diminishes the protective effect of condoms by leading to condom breakage, slippage, or leakage," Dr. Elizabeth Torrone, an epidemiologist at the CDC's Division of STD Prevention, told Buzzfeed.

Simply washing a condom with soap won't kill any bacteria or virus lurking on the condom's surface — meaning, it's pretty much useless.

Putting a wet, unrolled condom back on would also be a Herculean task. 

If that's not enough to encourage you to throw your old condoms in the trash and rely on fresh ones instead, then maybe the alarming rise in cases of super gonorrhea, an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bug, will. 

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In August 2006, it seemed like Tom Cruise was finished.

In an announcement unprecedented by the head of a major conglomerate, the chairman of Viacom, Sumner Redstone, publicly ripped into the star, who at the time was one of the most profitable at Viacom's movie studio, Paramount Pictures.

“We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot,” Redstone told The Wall Street Journal. “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”

Nine years ago was certainly the toughest and strangest time of Cruise’s career. The then 43-year-old actor had a lifetime box-office gross of over $1.5 billion, but his flawless transition from young heartthrob to respected dramatic actor to gargantuan action star seemed to self-destruct as quickly as one of the messages his character, Ethan Hunt, receives in the “Mission: Impossible” movies.

The studio he'd called home for 14 years was parting ways with him.

On the heels of the successful opening weekend for "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," which was the biggest opening ever for the franchise and second-largest opening for Cruise, it's hard to imagine the veteran actor's career being at such a low point.

The couch jump, "TomKat," and Scientology

His strange downfall and subsequent rebirth as one of the most bankable movie stars all began with an innocent act of love.

When Cruise agreed to go on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in May 2005 to promote his next blockbuster film, “War of the Worlds,” it was a big deal. Not only did most women believe he was one of the sexiest men alive, but Cruise rarely did interviews, especially on daytime TV.

As Cruise walked onto Oprah's stage, the crowd went wild. Oprah playfully tousled Cruise's hair, and the actor was clearly in a great mood.

During the interview, Oprah brought up Cruise's latest love interest, Katie Holmes, who was off-stage where no one, especially the cameras, could see her. The excitement of talking about his new girlfriend led him to leap up on Oprah's couch with joy (he did it a second time for good measure).

After the couch jumping, Oprah even got Cruise to chase down Holmes and get her to come on stage.

It seemed harmless at the time, but thanks to a very young internet video-posting site called YouTube, the image of Cruise on top of Oprah’s couch would become a pop-culture phenomenon.

A month later, Cruise agreed to go on the “Today” show to continue promoting “War of the Worlds,” and also talk about his religion, Scientology. But when interviewer Matt Lauer changed the topic to Scientology, and specifically to Cruise not agreeing with psychiatry, the tone changed. Especially in regard to Brooke Shields’ use of antidepressants for postpartum depression.

Here’s an excerpt of Cruise and Lauer's uncomfortable exchange:

Cruise: “Do you know what Adderall is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?”

Lauer: “The difference is — ”

Cruise: “No, Matt, I’m asking you a question.”

Lauer: “I understand there’s abuse of all of these things.”

Cruise: “No, you see here’s the problem: You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.”

Later in the conversation:

Lauer: “Do you examine the possibility that these things do work for some people? That yes, there are abuses, and yes, maybe they’ve gone too far in certain areas, maybe there are too many kids on Ritalin, maybe electric shock — ”

Cruise: “Too many kids on Ritalin?”

Lauer: “I’m just saying — but aren’t there examples where it works?”

Cruise: “Matt, Matt, Matt, you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt. OK? That’s what I’ve done. You go and you say, ‘Where’s the medical tests? Where’s the blood test that says how much Ritalin you’re supposed to get?’”

Lauer: “It’s very impressive to listen to you, because clearly you’ve done the homework and you know the subject.”

Cruise: “And you should. And you should do that also, because just knowing people who are on Ritalin isn’t enough. You should be a little bit more responsible … ”

Minutes later, the exchange was on loop all over the world.

Within a few weeks, Cruise had gone wild on Oprah and lashed out at Matt Lauer, and by then the tabloids had gone overtime on the Cruise-Holmes relationship, which they called “TomKat.”

It was time for Cruise to get off the grid, but he couldn't.

Cruise's star power takes a hit

For most of his career, an experienced publicist named Pat Kingsley reportedly kept Cruise’s private life out of the tabloids. According to a 2014 LA Weekly story, she even talked Cruise out of being more vocal about Scientology when he did press for his 2003 film “The Last Samurai.” A year later, according to the LA Weekly story, Cruise let Kingsley go after 14 years and formed a publicity team that included his sister, Lee Anne De Vette, and fellow Scientologists.

Now in a typhoon of backlash that Cruise had never experienced before, his team may have been too inexperienced to protect him.

Despite all the negative attention, “War of the Worlds” still went to No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend ($65 million), and ended up with a worldwide take of $592 million. It would be the last time a film starring Cruise would make over $500 million worldwide for the next six years.

Following the “War of the Worlds” release, TomKat was still daily tabloid fodder, especially with the news that the two were expecting a child. And then, in March 2006, Cruise went global again with the controversial “South Park” episode“Trapped in the Closet.”

The episode originally aired in November 2005 and revealed what Scientologists believe is the origin of life, but it also depicted Cruise as an insecure person and played on rumors of his sexuality.

In the episode, one of the main characters on the show, Stan, is thought by Scientology to be the second coming of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This leads Scientologists, including Cruise, to flock to Stan’s house to pay their respects. But when Stan insults his acting ability, Cruise hides in Stan’s closet, leading to Stan saying, “Dad, Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet.”

Comedy Central delayed re-airing the episode in March 2006, because allegedly Cruise declared he would not promote “Mission: Impossible 3” unless Viacom (which owns the film’s studio, Paramount, and Comedy Central) canceled the rebroadcast.

Cruise’s reps denied he ever threatened not to promote the film.

The controversy made headlines all over the world and led "South Park" fans to declare they would boycott “Mission: Impossible 3” until Comedy Central aired the episode.

The episode finally re-aired in July of that year.

“Closetgate,” in what it would become known, was the last straw.

The constant tabloid coverage of TomKat, plus rumors of Cruise’s involvement with Scientology — like that Cruise and Holmes’ relationship was allegedly arranged by the church — had turned people off. (Cruise and Holmes married in November 2006 and divorced six years later.)

The bad press soon began to affect Cruise's career. “Mission: Impossible 3” opened in theaters in May 2006 and Cruise's Q score — the appeal of a celebrity, brand, or company on the public — was down 40%.

Though the film was No. 1 in the US its opening weekend ($48 million), it lost appeal as the weeks passed. Ticket sales dropped 47% its second week in theaters, and then 53% the following week.

“Mission: Impossible 3” is the lowest grossing film in the franchise to date with a $400 million worldwide gross.

It was at this point that Viacom chair Sumner Redstone gave Cruise his wake-up call: “We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”

The long road back to superstardom

After being kicked off the Paramount lot, Cruise hired a publicist with more experience and buckled down for a comeback. He brought his production company over to MGM and took partial ownership of the iconic United Artists studio.

Cruise also became less vocal about Scientology in public, though he was apparently involved internally. In 2008, a Scientology-produced video went viral on YouTube of the actor explaining what the religion means to him.

Cruise hit the pause button on doing action movies, turning to dramas like “Lions for Lambs” and “Valkyrie."

In between those films he agreed to star in pal Ben Stiller’s 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder” as the overweight, bigger-than-life movie exec Les Grossman. It was the best move Cruise had done in years. In doing something so out of character, he began to win back fans.

“Tropic Thunder” reunited Cruise with his former studio, Paramount. Although Cruise's production company was kicked off the lot, it didn't mean he couldn't still be cast in the studio's films. The wheels were now in motion for Cruise to get back on Paramount’s good side so he could make more “Mission: Impossible” movies.

Being a hit in “Tropic Thunder,” the biggest comedy of the year for Paramount, was a good starting point. Director J.J. Abrams, who directed Cruise in "Mission: Impossible 3" and was in Paramount's good graces after directing the studio's hit "Star Trek Into Darkness," was also working to get Cruise back in the franchise.

In the summer of 2010, news broke that Cruise would be starring in “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,” with Abrams as producer. But this installment in the franchise would not be titled “Mission: Impossible 4,” because the idea was that the film would be a refresh on the franchise, with Cruise stepping aside as the lead and giving way to rising star Jeremy Renner.

Cruise didn’t get the message.

Back in the Ethan Hunt role, Cruise cemented his place in the franchise by scaling the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, without a stunt double. That, and the other insane stunts featured in the film, led to “Ghost Protocol” earning the biggest worldwide box office in the franchise, with $695 million. It was also the second-highest earning film for Paramount in 2011, just behind “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”

Since "Ghost Protocol it hasn't all been box office wins for Cruise. "Knight and Day" and the "Jack Reacher" franchise didn't do as well as expected. And he could not help Universal's Dark Universe get off the ground as 2017's "The Mummy" bombed at the box office. However, he's laid the seeds of what could be another profitable franchise with 2014's “Edge of Tomorrow, which even with a slow start when it opened, ended up passing the domestic $100 million mark (the first time in nine years a non-“Mission: Impossible” Cruise film hit that landmark number) and only grew in popularity when it got onto home video and streaming. And then there's the "M:I" movies.

“Rogue Nation,” with its insane stunt of Cruise hanging from the side of a plane as it took off, earned over $682.7 million worldwide, the top-grossing film for Paramount that year. And "Fallout" is looking to be another major earner for the franchise.

And even despite Alex Gibney's explosive 2015 HBO Scientology documentary "Going Clear," in which Cruise is criticized for remaining the face of the controversial religion, it hasn't stopped Cruise's mission of returning as one of the world's top movie stars. 

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• Traveling to Greece during the peak summer months can be an expensive, busy, and crowded vacation, particularly if you frequent the two most popular islands in the country, Mykonos and Santorini.
• A Greek local told me, upon arriving in Mykonos, that if I wanted a more relaxing, cheaper, and more authentic experience, I should take a ferry to any island in Greece that doesn't have an airport.
• After a hectic and expensive two days in Mykonos, I got on a ferry to Tinos. Only 40 minutes away, the island was quieter, more romantic, just as beautiful, and less than half the price of Mykonos or Santorini.

Traveling to Greece during the peak summer months can feel both like a dream and a nightmare.

The islands are warm, sunbaked, and full of life and energy. Every beach calls you to swim in its azure waters or tan on its rocky cliffs and every whitewashed wall, blue window, and stuccoed roof is waiting to land on your Instagram feed.

But, there, lurking just outside the frame — in the real world — are the people. Hordes of cruise-shippers and family holiday-makers fill the once-cute cobblestone alleyways of Mykonos. Everyone and their mothers is at that one viewing point where the sunset hits the Santorini skyline just so. And that’s to say nothing of the celebrities, billionaires, and their entourages that crowd those two islands and turn every place into a re-staging of Snowpiercer: Greek Style.

On my first day in Mykonos, in fact in the first five minutes, the hotel driver who picked me up from the airport —there are only 30 taxis on the island, so good luck getting one — let me in on a secret: Leave Mykonos, as soon as possible.

Michael, a boyish fifty-year-old “financial refugee” from Athens who only comes to Mykonos to work the summer months, said that the secret to enjoying Greece is getting away from the crowded popular islands like Mykonos and Santorini.

"Mykonos is not really Greece. It's nothing," he said, as he took me to what was the cheapest accommodation available on the island, a 110 Euro a night pension (guesthouse) in Ornos.

“Look at a map, find the islands that don’t have airports, and go there. Any one will do. They’re all beautiful."

The following night I hung out in Mykonos Town, crowded with vacationers of every income level, as well as an overflowing variety of fine-dining restaurants, fun bars, swanky pretentious clubs, souvenir stores, Louis Vuitton shops, and art galleries. The prices are high enough to make even someone from New York (which ranks amongst the metro areas with the highest cost of living in the US) squirm. 

I could care less about all that. If that’s your jam, enjoy.

The next day I took a 40-minute ferry to Tinos — no airport there. What I found was far closer to my Platonic ideal of Greece — a windswept, charming town, a two-lane road that curls along the coast waiting for a car or scooter to speed down it, and tavernas that look like locals, not Lindsay Lohan and Tiffany Trump, eat fish there.

Everything is half the price of Mykonos and Santorini or less.

If you need to find me, I’ll be hopping ferry to ferry, avoiding any island with an airport. If you’re traveling to Greece this summer, I suggest you do the same.

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• Using a sample résumé to help you spruce up your own doesn't mean it has to be bland.
• Business Insider and TopResume career expert Amanda Augustine put together a strong sample résumé as inspiration for job seekers.
• Augustine also provided insight on what works in this particular résumé so that you tailor your own résumé to your needs.

A good résumé can be hard to find — so here's a solid sample résumé to help you get started.

After all, your résumé is your key to new and exciting job opportunities.

Business Insider and Amanda Augustine — who currently works as TopResume's careers expert and previously worked in the same capacity as Ladders— put together the following résumé for all current and future job seekers.

While résumés should be tailored to the industry you're in, the one below offers a helpful guide for entry- and mid-level professionals with three to five years of relevant work experience.

What makes this résumé so great? Augustine outlined the following reasons:

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1. It includes a URL to the job seeker's professional online profile

If you don't include URLs to your professional online profiles, hiring managers will look you up regardless.

Why not include your URL along with your contact information? This will prevent recruiters from having to guess or mistaking you for someone else.

2. It uses consistent branding

"If you have a common name, consider including your middle initial on your résumé and online professional profiles to differentiate yourself from the competition," said Augustine.

For example, decide if you're Mike Johnson, Michael Johnson, or Mike E. Johnson. Then use this name consistently, be it on LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.

3. It includes a single phone number and email address

"Choose one phone number for your résumé where you control the voicemail message and who picks up the phone," Augustine said.

The same rule applies to an email address.

• Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday endorsed a "first wave" of Democratic candidates for the 2018 midterms.
• Obama's list of 81 endorsements notably did not include the rising star of the Democratic party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
• He's reportedly expected to announce another round of endorsements in the future and will campaign in several states before Election Day.

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday endorsed a "first wave" of Democratic candidates for the 2018 midterms.

Obama tweeted, "Today I'm proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of Democratic candidates – leaders as diverse, patriotic, and big-hearted as the America they're running to represent."

He continued: "I'm confident that, together, they'll strengthen this country we love by restoring opportunity, repairing our alliances and standing in the world, and upholding our fundamental commitment to justice, fairness, responsibility, and the rule of law. But first, they need our votes."

Obama's list of 81 endorsements, which includes 48 women, notably did not include the rising star of the Democratic party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Ocasio-Cortez has been at the forefront of discussions surrounding the future of the party after her shocking victory against longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in the New York Democratic congressional primary in June. The self-declared Democratic socialist, who also worked on Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign, ran on a platform that puts her far to the left of many establishment Democrats.

A number of reporters noted Ocasio-Cortez's absence from the list on Twitter.

Though he endorsed her back in May, Obama's list also did not include Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The incumbent senator has clashed with Democratic party leaders in California, who have backed State Sen. Kevin de León over her.

Based on the list released Wednesday, the former president is seemingly avoiding endorsing any candidates who are challenging incumbent Democrats. 

Obama is reportedly expected to announce another round of endorsements in the future and will campaign in several states this fall before Election Day, which falls on November 6 this year.

Here's the full list of people Obama endorsed on Wednesday:

California
Gavin Newsom (Governor)
Eleni Kounalakis (Lt. Governor)
Josh Harder (U.S. House, CA-10)
TJ Cox (U.S. House, CA-21)
Katie Hill (U.S. House, CA-25)
Katie Porter (U.S. House, CA-45)
Harley Rouda (U.S. House, CA-48)
Mike Levin (U.S. House, CA-49)
Ammar Campa-Najjar (U.S. House, CA-50)
Buffy Wicks (State Assembly, District 15)
 
Colorado
Jared Polis (Governor)
Dianne Primavera (Lt. Governor)
Phil Weiser (Attorney General)
Jena Griswold (Secretary of State)
Tammy Story (State Senate, District 16)
Jessie Danielson (State Senate, District 20)
Brittany Pettersen (State Senate, District 22)
Faith Winter (State Senate, District 24)
Dylan Roberts (State House, District 26)
Dafna Michaelson Jenet (State House, District 30)
Shannon Bird (State House, District 35)
Rochelle Galindo (State House, District 50)
Julie McCluskie (State House, District 61)
 
Georgia
Stacey Abrams (Governor)
Sarah Riggs Amico (Lt. Governor)
Matthew Wilson (State House, District 80)
Shelly Hutchinson (State House, District 107)
 
Illinois
J.B. Pritzker (Governor)
Juliana Stratton (Lt. Governor)
Kwame Raoul (Attorney General)
Sean Casten (U.S. House, IL-6)
Brendan Kelly (U.S. House, IL-12)
Lauren Underwood (U.S. House, IL-14)
 
Iowa
Deidre DeJear (Secretary of State)
Tim Gannon (Secretary of Agriculture)
Kristin Sunde (State House, District 42)
Jennifer Konfrst (State House, District 43)
Eric Gjerde (State House, District 67)
Laura Liegois (State House, District 91)
 
Maine
Louis Luchini (State Senate, District 7)
Laura Fortman (State Senate, District 13)
Linda Sanborn (State Senate, District 30)
 
Nevada
Jacky Rosen (U.S. Senate)
Susie Lee (U.S. House, NV-3)
Steven Horsford (U.S. House, NV-4)
 
New Jersey
Andy Kim (U.S. House, NJ-3)
Tom Malinowski (U.S. House, NJ-7)
 
New Mexico
Debra Haaland (U.S. House, NM-1)
Daymon Ely (State House, District 23)
Natalie Figueroa (State House, District 30)
 
New York
Antonio Delgado (U.S. House, NY-19)
Anna Kaplan (State Senate, District 7)
 
North Carolina
Wiley Nickel (State Senate, District 16)
Ron Wesson (State House, District 1)
Terence Everitt (State House, District 35)
Julie Von Haefen (State House, District 36)
Sydney Batch (State House, District 37)
Rachel Hunt (State House, District 103)
 
Ohio
Richard Cordray (Governor)
Betty Sutton (Lt. Governor)
Steve Dettelbach (Attorney General)
Kathleen Clyde (Secretary of State)
Zack Space (Auditor)
Aftab Pureval (U.S. House, OH-1)
Jill Schiller (U.S. House, OH-2)
Phil Robinson (State House, District 6)
Stephanie Howse (State House, District 11)
Mary Lightbody (State House, District 19)
Beth Liston (State House, District 21)
Allison Russo (State House, District 24)
Erica Crawley (State House, District 26) 
Tavia Galonski (State House, District 35)
Casey Weinstein (State House, District 37)
Taylor Sappington (State House, District 94)
 
Pennsylvania
Madeleine Dean (U.S. House, PA-4)
Susan Wild (U.S. House, PA-7)
Tina Davis (State Senate, District 6)
Liz Hanbidge (State House, District 61)
Carolyn Comitta (State House, District 156)
 
Texas
Adrienne Bell (U.S. House, TX-14)
Colin Allred (U.S. House, TX-32)

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Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders Vermont remains the most popular senator in the country, according to a new poll from Morning Consult. The former Democratic presidential candidate earned 63% of support from Vermont voters.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the most unpopular senator in the country. The senior Kentucky senator earned only 30% approval from voters in the Bluegrass State.

The Morning Consult rankings are based on a survey of more than 330,000 registered voters between April 1 and June 30.

The five least and five most popular senators are:

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LEAST POPULAR: 1. Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell

Approve: 30%

Disapprove: 56%

2. Arizona Republican Jeff Flake

Approve: 30%

Disapprove: 51%

3. Arizona Republican John McCain

Approve: 42%

Disapprove: 46%

• New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returned to work on Thursday after a six-week maternity leave.
• She gave birth to her first child, Neve, on June 21.
• Her partner, the presenter of a fishing TV show, will care for Neve full-time.
• Ardern also plans to bring her baby to parliamentary debates and to the United Nations.
• Her acting prime minister courted controversy during her six-week absence.

Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, has returned to work after being the first world leader to take maternity leave.

Ardern, 38, went back to work on Thursday after spending six weeks on maternity leave. She gave birth to her first child, Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford, on June 21.

She told Sky News Australia on Thursday that Baby Neve "is doing really well," and described her partner Clarke Gayford as a "very hands-on parent." Gayford, a fishing TV show presenter, will care for Neve full-time.

On Saturday she posted a video on Facebook outlining her plans in parliament on her first week back — including increased focus on mental health, environment, trade, and employment — adding that she and her new family had "absolutely no routine to speak of."

She added: "First week back, I'm going to be focused on getting straight back into it," she said.

Ardern also told New Zealand news site Stuff.co.nz she would breastfeed her baby during parliamentary debates "if I had to, absolutely, in the same way that other women have."

She also told the news site she would bring Neve to the United Nations General Assembly in September, where she is scheduled to speak. It would be Neve's first foreign trip.

During her six-week absence, New Zealand's coalition government was run by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters.

Despite being acting prime minister for six short weeks, 72-year-old Peters courted various controversies including accusing Australia of copying New Zealand's national flag and demanding that it change its design, saying on radio didn't like seeing a "multitude of cultures" in New Zealand, and fat-shaming a colleague during a parliamentary debate.

Peters can be heard saying "throw fatty out" around the 4-second mark in the video below, which was taken on his last day as prime minister before Ardern's return.

Ardern, who was elected as prime minister in October, is the first Western leader to be pregnant in office, and the second worldwide. The first sitting political leader to give birth in office was former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who had a daughter in 1990.

Ardern said she found out about the pregnancy in mid-October last year — six days before she was confirmed as Prime Minister after last year's elections.

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• Starbucks has agreed a new delivery partnership with Alibaba, one of China's largest online retailers.
• Starbucks already controls 80% of China's coffee market, and this will help it get even more.
• The new deal will see Starbucks integrate a "virtual store" in online shopping and payment apps.
• It comes after Starbucks' same-store sales in China slipped 2% in the past quarter amid fierce competition new regulation.
• People in China have been consuming more and more coffee in recent years.

Starbucks is cementing its dominant status as China’s largest coffee provider with a new delivery partnership with Alibaba, one of the country's most prominent online retailers.

The Seattle-based company has signed a new deal with Alibaba, the e-commerce giant owned by Jack Ma, to expand its delivery services throughout China, CNBC reported on Thursday.

Starbucks already controls some 80% of the Chinese coffee market, and the tie-up will open even more opportunity for them.

The new deal will see Starbucks integrate a "virtual store" to Alibaba's online shopping and payment apps — such as Alipay, Taobao, Tmall, and Hema. That would allow users to order from Starbucks on their phones, and have their drinks and food delivered to them in person.

"That opens up 500 million or more active users of those apps that will have access to Starbucks," Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson told CNBC.

Partnering with Alibaba also allows Starbucks to work with Ele.me, an Alibaba-owned online food delivery service, to open 150 stores in Shanghai and Beijing, and broaden delivery to 2,000 stories in 30 cities around China by the end of 2018.

The coffee giant also plans to build up to 600 "Starbucks Delivery Kitchens" in Hema, a futuristic, brick-and-mortar supermarket chain also owned by Alibaba.

The new partnership comes after Starbucks' same-store sales in China slipped 2% in the past quarter amid fierce competition and tightened regulations on delivery services.

Starbucks already controls 80% of China's coffee market, the Financial Times reported, citing Euromonitor statistics. It generated $3.24 billion in yearly revenue from China and the Asia-Pacific region last year — 15% of its global total.

China, traditionally a tea-drinking country, is starting to consume more and more coffee. Euromonitor, the market research consultancy, reported a dramatic rise in demand for freshly-brewed coffee in the country from 2017.

Last December, Starbucks also opened a 30,000-square-foot, two-story store in Shanghai, where visitors can watch their coffee being roasted from start to finish. It is the largest Starbucks in the world.

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• Clark Kent, a 10-year-old boy, recently beat a record set by Michael Phelps more than two decades ago.
• Dubbed "Superman," Kent swam a 100-meter butterfly race at a competition in California over one second faster than what Phelps managed 23 years ago.
• He says he feels as if he can fly through water — and who are we to argue otherwise?

When Clark Kent, a 10-year-old boy dubbed "Superman," is in the water, he says, he feels as if he is "flying," according to the "CBS Evening News."

And judging by the swimming speeds he has been registering, it's hard to argue otherwise, as the young phenom recently broke a record that Michael Phelps set over 23 years ago.

Phelps, 33, is perhaps the best-known swimmer of all time. He is certainly the most decorated, as he has 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them gold, to go with his 33 World Championship medals.

He has also set an astonishing 39 world records, more than any other swimmer.

But a record he set as a junior has now been broken, as Kent won the 100-meter butterfly in 1 minute, 9:38 seconds on Sunday, according to CBS Baltimore. That is more than a second faster than what Phelps managed at the same competition, the Far West International Championship in California, over two decades ago in 1995.

Kent placed first in all seven races he competed in that day and says people now call him Superman — Kent shares a name with the superhero's alter ego.

"If I have positive thoughts, then positive things will happen," he said, according to the "CBS Evening News."

According to CBS Baltimore, he added: "I love swimming because I have a lot of people supporting me, and my coaches are always there for me and my parents are always there."

Phelps does not begrudge Kent for beating one of his records. In fact, he even tweeted his support.

"Big congrats to Clark Kent for smashing that meet record!" Phelps said. "Keep it up dude."

Watch Kent in the swimming pool here:

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There are a lot of movies to choose from on Netflix these days — but honestly, they aren't all great.

So every month we look at the new titles coming to the streaming giant and pick out the ones we think won’t disappoint you.

For August, there’s the movie that kicked off the Christopher Nolan Batman saga, Kevin Smith’s love letter to New Jersey (and landmark indie movie), a Bill Murray classic comedy, and the Martin Scorsese movie that gave us a Leonardo DiCaprio in the buff standing in a private movie theater lined with pee jars.

• “Batman Begins” (Available August 1)
• “Clerks” (August 1)
• “Constantine” (August 1)
• “Secretariat” (August 1)
• “Silverado” (August 1)
• “Stripes” (August 1)
• “The Aviator” (August 1)
• “No Country for Old Men” (August 11)

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• Almost 300 people are known to have died trying to reach the top of Mount Everest.
• Lhakpa Sherpa, who's reached the summit a record-breaking nine times, described her latest climb to Business Insider.
• She said Everest climbers pass frozen bodies as they near the top of the mountain.
  
• Warning: this post contains graphic descriptions of those bodies, as well as a photo of one.

Climbing Mount Everest, a rock that soars five and a half miles off the ground, takes a considerable amount of money and time, along with guts of steel.

People who attempt to summit the mountain typically spend upwards of $25,000 on the experience, buying $850 oxygen tanks, securing $11,000 permits (when climbing from Nepal), and hiring local guides called sherpas to help them carry gear and lead the way. Then hikers usually stay at Everest base camp for several weeks to acclimate to the thin air before they try to reach the 29,029-foot-high peak. 

Lhakpa Sherpa knows what it's like on top of Everest better than few others on the planet — she has reached the summit of the world's tallest mountain more times than any other woman. In 2018, she trudged her way up, clients in tow, for the ninth time, breaking her previous record. 

Sherpa told Business Insider that the day a group attempts to summit is by far the most difficult section of the trek.

"We say [it's] the dead zone," she said, referring to the dangerous final 2,780-foot stretch of the climb. At that point, hikers are above 8,000 meters (26,250 feet) high.

What it's like to summit Everest

The hard work begins after nightfall, around 10 p.m., when Sherpa and her clients begin climbing up that last stretch in the dark. Starting at night allows teams to reach the top by daybreak and see better when they climb back down.

The trek to the summit takes about seven hours. Sherpa said she doesn't eat any food or drink any water during that section of the climb, even though she's pulling her body over rocks and breathing in thinner and thinner air. 

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Here, people can suffer from an oxygen-starved delirium that some experts consider a form of high-altitude psychosis. Climbers have been known to do strange things like start shedding their clothes or talking to imaginary friends.

"Their life is in our hands and we must protect them from their own insanity," Sherpa said.

All the while, climbers pass a morbid kind of mile marker: dead corpses of fallen hikers that littler the trail.

The frozen bodies of people who've fallen prey to the mountain's death zone serve as a grim reminder that even with ample preparation, experienced guides, and expensive gear, Everest is deadly. 

Sherpa, who's been scaling the mountain regularly since 2000, said she saw seven bodies during the final stretch of her climb this year. One body was an especially eerie site.

"He looked alive, because the wind was blowing his hair," Sherpa said. Upon closer inspection, she realized his face was frozen and disfigured. 

Deaths on Everest

According to the Himalayan Database, which was last updated in 2017, there have been 290 recorded deaths on Everest. The Himalayan Times reported that another six people died there in 2018, bringing the total to around 300. That's a steep death rate for a feat that fewer than 5,000 people have ever attempted. 

Sherpa isn't the only one who thinks about the bodies. For years, Everest climbers have spoken of a dead man they called "Green Boots" who lay in a cave roughly 1,130 feet from the top.

Many of these bodies have remained on Everest because hiking up to recover bodies at that altitude (or carrying people down) can also be a deadly chore. More than 200 permanently frozen corpses litter the mountain, according to an estimate from the BBC. 

The most cited cause of death on Everest is avalanches. In 2014, one such event killed 16 sherpas, putting Everest climbing on hold for that season.

Other people have perished from the various health consequences of hiking at an altitude that's usually reserved for airplanes. The air has so little oxygen that even with tanks, it can feel like "running on a treadmill and breathing through a straw," American mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears once said.

Climbers can experience violent, rib-cracking coughs and dangerous swelling in the brain and lungs. 

A brief moment on top before climbing back down

Despite the challenges that a lack of oxygen poses, hikers must climb fairly quickly to reach the summit around 5 a.m., as the timeline requires.

Once at the top, Sherpa said, the feeling she gets is unmatched.

"I feel like a zombie who has stumbled into heaven. At the summit, I truly feel on top of the world," she said. "A euphoria I cannot find anywhere else."

Even though most climbers would like to linger a bit longer at the top, Sherpa knows they can only spend 20 minutes there — time to snap a few photos — before heading back down out of the death zone.

The 2-mile trek back to the safety of base camp takes 12 hours. Sherpa's teams usually reaches camp just as the sun sets, and she breathes easier than she has all day.

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• TBS' "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee on Wednesday blasted CBS for not firing its CEO and chairman Les Moonves over the recent sexual misconduct allegations against.
• In a report published by the New Yorker last week, six women accused Moonves of misconduct that allegedly included forcible touching and kissing. 
• CBS announced on Monday that it would not suspend Moonves while it conducted an outside investigation into the allegations against him.

TBS' "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee on Wednesday criticized CBS for not firing its CEO and chairman Les Moonves over the recent sexual misconduct allegations made against him. 

"Les Moonves is in deep trouble for sexually harassing female colleagues – or maybe he's not in trouble at all," Bee started the segment.

The host then threw to news clips detailing the allegations six women made against Moonves in a New Yorker report written by Ronan Farrow last week. The allegations included forcible touching and kissing, with four of the women referred to Moonves' alleged behavior as a "practiced routine."

"Yes, who could ever bear to get rid of the creative mastermind who developed 'Hawaii Five-O' and 'Hawaii Five-O: Miami?'" Bee joked. "Les Moonves may be a brilliant TV creator, but no cop procedural, no matter how well-crafted and original, is worth ending a woman’s career to shut her up."

The CBS board announced on Monday that it would not suspend Moonves while it conducted an investigation with outside counsel into the allegations against him. On Wednesday, CBS announced that it had hired two prominent law firms to investigate the allegations. 

"In the words of one of the immortal characters he helped create: 'It's time for this Moonves to be eclipsed,'" Bee concluded the segment, putting on a pair of Aviator sunglasses.

Watch the clip below, starting at the 5:34 mark:

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• Walmart store employees, like all retail workers, have to deal with some trying situations on the job.
• At the same time, a number of associates told Business Insider that the job's not all rude customers and unhelpful managers.
• Here's a look at some of the best and most challenging aspects of working at Walmart, according to employees.

Walmart store employees — all 2.3 million of them worldwide — have a unique inside view of the retail giant.

They see the best the company has to offer its workers— and, occassionally, the worst.

Walmart currently has a 3.2 out of 5 rating on Glassdoor, and 55% of Glassdoor posters said they would recommend the gig to a friend.

Here's what associates say are the best — and most challenging — parts of working at Walmart.

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The work can vary day-to-day

One employee from Florida told Business Insider that they liked the fact that their daily routine at the store could change based on the day or season.

"There are a lot of different jobs at Walmart, and you can move between them fairly easily," former Walmart employee Jon Loyd wrote on Quora. "Walmart has a system for putting in job preferences, so you can be considered as soon a position come open."

Loyd himself said he started out as a cashier and shifted into a maintenance role. He added that he was also trained to work in the electronics department and work at the operator's desk.

Dealing with many different managers

One Walmart associate of 10 years told Business Insider that they had a hard time "dealing with too many chiefs" at the store.

Another employee of 15 years told Business Insider that they felt the management of their store tended to be "scared to death" of those above them in the corporate chain of command.

That being said, the system ends up working for some people.

Loyd wrote on Quora that "every Walmart has a different culture."

But he added that the Walmart store where he worked had "great management," so an abundance of managers was actually a good thing.

"Even if we have to deal with bad managers, there was always another manager to go to for help," he wrote.

Problematic goings-on in the parking lot

A Walmart employee from Nashville told Business Insider that shoppers often drive dangerously in the parking lot, while another associate from Virginia said that they had witnessed fights go down in their store's parking lot.

A Reddit poster who said they worked at Walmart also took issue with the driving habits of some customers.

"I had a guy back out towards me while I was pushing a row of carts directly behind his car," the poster wrote. "I desperately moved the line of carts around his car as he continued to back out. I ended up pushing them right up against the side of his car — scratching it."

Conor McGregor is, like his combat sports nickname suggests, "Notorious."

The UFC fighter is as famous for his concussive striking power as he is for his memorable microphone skills, his flambouyant dress sense, and his taste for a night on the town. He plays hard, but he trains even harder. McGregor won titles in Cage Warriors, transitioned into premier cage-fighting firm UFC, and continued to trounce his opponents.

McGregor has not fought in UFC since 2016, but his fame grew so quickly he was regarded as a good enough opponent for Floyd Mayweather's retirement bout — a fight McGregor lost, albeit valiently, in the 10th round last year.

McGregor is set to return to the UFC octagon this year, potentially against Russian foe Khabib Nurmagomedov. But to maintain his sporting dominance, he has to eat right. So what sort of food does a former two-weight UFC world-champion fighter eat?

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This is Conor McGregor, the former two-weight UFC champion renowned for his pre-fight trash talk, his highlight-reel striking, and his flashy lifestyle. After two years away from mixed martial arts, McGregor looks set to return to the sport and will reportedly challenge Russian wrestler Khabib Nurmagomedov for the UFC lightweight world title at UFC 229.

Source: MMA Fighting.

McGregor projects a work-hard, play-hard image. When it comes to training camp and cutting weight, he may well be an advocate of the "Sirtfood diet," having taken a photograph holding a copy of the book by Aidan Goggins and Glen Matten. The weight-loss diet involves foods that are rich in "sirtfoods" — typically, things like green tea, 85% dark chocolate, and citrus fruits.

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Conor McGregor starts his day just like we do — he wakes up and reaches for the coffee. Unlike most, though, he drinks it while looking fresh in a suit.

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Over time, music genres shift in popularity, songwriting methods change, but one thing remains constant in popular music each year — terrible songs find their way to the top of the charts.

Billboard compiles an annual list of the top 100 singles at year's end. We revisited the most popular songs of every year since 2000 and selected what we deemed to be the worst song from each year's list of top 10 singles. 

If you feel that times have changed for the worse, consider that we're at least no longer inundated by tracks from the likes of Train and Hoobastank.

Here's a list of the worst hit song from every year since 2000:

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2000: "I Knew I Loved You" — Savage Garden

1. "Breathe" — Faith Hill
2. "Smooth" — Santana featuring Rob Thomas
3. "Maria Maria" — Santana featuring The Product G&B
4. "I Wanna Know" — Joe
5. "Everything You Want" — Vertical Horizon
6. "Say My Name" — Destiny's Child
7. "I Knew I Loved You"— Savage Garden
8. "Amazed" — Lonestar
9. "Bent" — Matchbox Twenty
10. "He Wasn't Man Enough" — Toni Braxton

"I knew I loved you before I met you / I think I dreamed you into life" croon Australian pop duo Savage Garden on the chorus of this repulsively sentimental top 10 hit, a made-for-weddings track steeped in triteness. 

2001: "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" — Train

1. "Hanging by a Moment" — Lifehouse
2. "Fallin'" — Alicia Keys
3. "All for You" — Janet Jackson
4. "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" — Train
5. "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" — Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule
6. "If You're Gone" — Matchbox Twenty
7. "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" — Eve featuring Gwen Stefani
8. "Thank You" — Dido
9. "Again" — Lenny Kravitz
10. "Independent Women" — Destiny's Child

Train's cloying breakthrough single about a woman with "drops of jupiter" in her hair had staying power on radio for an interminable number of years. 

2002: "How You Remind Me" — Nickelback

1. "How You Remind Me" — Nickelback
2. "Foolish" — Ashanti
3. "Hot in Herre" — Nelly
4. "Dilemma" — Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
5. "Wherever You Will Go" — The Calling
6. "A Thousand Miles" — Vanessa Carlton
7. "In the End" — Linkin Park
8. "What's Luv?" — Fat Joe featuring Ashanti
9. "U Got It Bad" — Usher
10. "Blurry" — Puddle of Mudd

To be fair, "How You Remind Me" is not the worst Nickleback song, but that makes it like two nails on a chalkboard compared to the group's usual whole-handed scrape.